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said Hedges. “Their hard were among those evolved during work planning and helping to raise some JABSOM’s 50 years. executing a myriad of $940,000 for MD Dr. Patricia events building over the last student scholarships. Blanchette, a four years led to this Ninety percent of JABSOM alumna success,” said the Dean, JABSOM MD students and the founding expressing his gratitude. are Hawaiʻi residents, Chair of the most with moderate Department of income families. Geriatric Medicine, Community leaders and was among the hospital officials were presenters. there too. Hawai’i’s “It was hospitals have been heartwarming to JABSOM’s clinical see the outpouring TH training partners since of support for the THE JABSOM 50 school and to think the beginning. Shimabukuro performing at ANNIVERSARY GALA the gala. about the WAS THE LARGEST Master musician motivations and Jake Shimabukuro, SINGLE EVENT EVER fund enabled JABSOM principles foremost spouse of a JABSOM to publish a book in the minds and HELD AT THE alumna, delivered an about the medical hearts of the SHERATON WAIKĪKĪ. electrifying school by TV school’s founders,” performance, bringing producer/author Larry said Blanchette. the audience to its Fleece. There were many feet for two encores. The Anniversary to thank for the People also were Weekend also included weekend’s success. touched by a video a daylong Continuing “We have an produced with Medical Education awesome alumni and proceeds from the event, which included faculty group who did Hans and Ilza Veith panels of alumni much to advance the Fund in memory of Dr. Above, Fleece interviews describing how school through this Charles Judd, Jr. The Cayetano for a book (cover medical education has 50th celebration,” seen at top) and film.

Left, a spotlight casts the JABSOM 50th anniversary logo onto the tiles of the lobby of the Sheraton Waikīkī. Right, Dean Hedges with Event Co-Chairs Dr. Carla Nip-Sakamoto and Dr. Thomas Kosasa and Honorary Event Chair the Hon. James S. Burns.

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“I never knew could become physicians.”

Mike Brigoli with classmates Rod Olivas and Matthew Lim.

The MD Class of 2019 is the largest class this decade, Twelve members of the continuing a gradual expansion Dean Hedges began in 2010. new class are Native Hawaiians. Eleven of them, like Mike The 68 men and women were selected from 2,230 applicants. Brigoli, also come from neighbor One by one, each student was “cloaked” with a waist-length islands. white coat and walked across the stage of the Hawaiʻi Theatre to Mike, married 19 years and be introduced to family, friends and the community in the annual a father of two, gave up his “White Coat Ceremony.” career in Pahoa as a firefighter and paramedic to go to medical First-year MD student Nate Enriquez said he and his school on O’ahu. classmates were feeling incredible. “Words can’t begin to explain “I couldn’t help seeing the the way all of us were feeling tonight,” Nate wrote on Facebook. impact of the lack of physicians “We’re finally on our way!” on my Island,” said Brigoli. “It made me want to step up and Kat Roberts was among ten in the class who won admission to become a doctor myself.” JABSOM by completing the intensive 12-month medical school preparatory ʻImi Hoʻōla Post-Baccalaureate Program at JABSOM, Brigoli is also encouraged by JABSOM’s focus on recruiting which recruits aspiring doctors from underserved or Native Hawaiian physicians. underprivileged communities. “For years I’ve dreamed of this “Growing up, I never knew day,” Kat wrote on Instagram. “I’ve watched so many White Coat Native Hawaiians could be a Ceremony videos, especially when I was super discouraged about doctor, he said, I had never met applying to med school. After all these hurdles and ups and one.” downs, it was such an honor to sit up on stage and receive my white coat.”

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Dean’s Report 2015 MEN’S MARCH: LEADING BY EXAMPLE

Dr. Jerris Hedges led the 2015 Men’s March Against Domestic Violence as Honorary Chair for the second consecutive year. The March’s profile has risen through the Dean’s participation—not in small part because he was willing to bravely share his experiences growing up in a home like so many others, where turmoil in the family and violence were not uncommon.

“Our Dean is a very dynamic and influential person in our community. He’s always visible and for him to open up and share his story, is really meaningful for us as students,” said second-year medical student Gabriel Lapid, one of the future physicians marching this year. “It sets a great example.”

A number of student groups from the University of Coach Ganot and Dean Hedges at the march. Hawai'i also marched, along with the baseball, football and basketball coaches and some athletes. “To get people connected to raise awareness about domestic violence and any help we can provide is an honor,” said new UH Basketball Coach Eran Gonot.

Dynamic Co-Chairs Burgess and Nakamura inspire new record for internal giving to JABSOM by faculty and staff

Faculty and staff at the John A. Burns School of Medicine set a new record in 2014 for their eighth annual “Starting from the Inside Out” internal giving drive. Under the leadership of campaign co-chairs Dr. Lawrence Burgess, Director of Telehealth Research and Dr. Ken Nakamura, Chair of Pediatrics, 394 faculty members and staff (participation was up 22% over the year before!) made gifts totaling $389,402, a 47% boost in the funds raised. The pledges and gifts were made to 77 different UH Foundation accounts benefitting JABSOM. The 2015 campaign kicked off in Our campaigns kick off each year with free ice cream October. sundaes in the café.

Dean’s Report 2015 4 8-#/9+!:-152.!7;<=!! Gifts Benefit! OB-GYN, Rural Students, Needy

Excellence within the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine Will Henderson and friends & surrounded by first year medical (JABSOM) prompted gifts students at JABSOM Left: Dr. Kosasa, Dr. Sharma, Dean Hedges and Dr. Zalud. this year of $7 million. ALOHA FUND CREATED Emeritus professor Santosh Sharma, MD created an endowed cha! ir FOR EVERY FIRST YEAR focused on research, presented to Dr. Steve Ward, Director of the MEDICAL STUDENT JABSOM Institute for Biogenesis Research (IBR). IBR scientists work to expand knowledge of human reproduction and increase the President Emeritus of The effectiveness of assisted reproduction. Emeritus Professor Thomas Queen’s Medical Center Will Kosasa, MD, and his family endowed two professorships and the first Henderson has established Kosasa Endowed Chair for the Department, Dr. Ivica Zalud. the Will J. Henderson Aloha Fund at the John A. Burns Dr. Earl Bakken, left, founder of Medtronic! Inc., School of Medicine (JABSOM) has created the Lau Hawai!i Fund in the medical to support every first-year ! school’s Department of Native Hawaiian Health to medical student now and in nurture a robust primary care physician workforce the future. on Hawai!i Island. An emphasis will be increasing the number of physicians from rural, underserved “I decided to make this gift and/or Native Hawaiian communities. to recognize JABSOM for the instrumental role it plays in ! The Benedict and Miriam Wo Foundation,! training essential physicians represented by Ric Wo, Trustee, left, has created and specialists, and founding two types of scholarships. One will provide four relationships and need-based scholarships of up to $20,000 each. The partnerships that will be of other involves eight merit-based awards of up to value to our community and $10,000 each. The Wo family founded C. S. Wo & state for years to come,” Sons Ltd. said Henderson.

! $15.4 MILLION MINORITY HEALTH ALUMNUS RETURNS TO HEAD RESEARCH RENEWAL SURGERY DEPARTMENT

Dean Hedges and social work school Dr. Kenric Murayama, 1985 JABSOM Dean Noreen Mokuau are leading a alumnus, has joined the school’s five-year interdisciplinary research Department of Surgery as Chair. Dr. Top-Mokuwau, Hedges. Bottom- program to improve health among Murayama, right, with his son Murayama’s expertise is minimally Michael and the Dean. ! several cultural and ethnic groups in invasive gastrointestinal surgery with a Hawai’i. Traditional and non-traditional focus on laparoscopic treatment for treatment approaches will be pursued. benign esophageal disorders, abdominal Funding is from National Institute on wall hernias, and morbid obesity. Minority Health and Health Disparities.

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! =! Dean’s Report 2015 UH-JABSOM EXTERNAL FUNDING TOPS $58 MILLION FOR RESEARCH IN 2015

Dr. Axel Lehrer has been awarded a $1.9 million grant that allows him to continue his work with collaborators, including Dr. Thomas Geisbert of the Galveston National Laboratory, to develop a diagnostic test for the Ebola virus. The ultimate goal is to develop a safe and effective non-replicating Ebola virus vaccine based on insect cell expressed recombinant virus subunits that can safely protect humans against infection.

Native Hawaiian Health Department Chair Keawe Kaholokula, PhD, was presented the Clopton Award for Outstanding Community Service by UH Mānoa Chancellor Bley-Vroman this year. Dr. Kaholokula also has been awarded a $3.3 million, five-year grant to perform a community-engaged, randomized control trial of hula, the indigenous dance form of Native Hawaiians, among 250 Native Hawaiians with hypertension living in Hawai`i and Washington State.

Family Medicine’s Dr. Neal Palafox and partners at the UH Cancer Center have received a five-year, $5.5 million grant to fight cancer among Pacific Islanders in Hawai'i, Guam and neighboring U.S. Associated Pacific Islands. Cervical cancer screening and the impact of betel nut chewing are two focuses.

DR. EDWIN CADMAN REMEMBERED, 1945-2015

Dr. Edwin C. Cadman, Dean of the JABSOM from 1999-2005, died on September 23, 2015 at the age of 70, surrounded by his family in Corvallis, Oregon. Dr. Cadman retired after being stricken with a neurological disorder that left him unable to communicate. “As the driving force behind the creation of the new facilities in Kakaʻako, Dean Cadman envisioned a school that in only five years under his leadership would experience unprecedented growth in biomedical research,” said Dr. Jerris Hedges, who succeeded Dr. Cadman as Dean of JABSOM. “I was honored to follow his The Cadman family requests donations lead and to build on the contributions to the medical school that were made go to the Edwin Cadman Endowed Fund by him and others who came before him.” for the Study of Neurodegenerative Disorders at JABSOM.

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